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Alexander Capron, Gabriel Danovitch, Kimberly Krawiec, and Elaine Perlman debate whether paying kidney donors would save lives or unravel the system that makes donation possible.

More than 100 leaders from CMS, Congress, plans, providers, and academia spent the day working through one question: how should the relationship between Medicare Advantage payers and providers change to better serve patients, beneficiaries, and taxpayers? The program now enrolls 54% of Medicare beneficiaries and is absorbing the most significant payment recalibration in its 20-year history.

Featuring Dr. Serena Yeung-Levy, Stanford University

The HBHI Graduate Academy gives fellows a seat at the table for HBHI's D.C. convenings. Bonnie Koo and Kadamb Gupta share what they took from a December forum with Mark Cuban, Bill Gurley, and Patrick Conway.

Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav argue that, for decades, the United States has patched together health insurance coverage rather than building a coherent system—and that this approach has left the country with coverage that remains fragmented, unstable, and incomplete.

HBHI leadership team member and core faculty Dr. Amit Jain has been appointed vice president of care transformation for the Johns Hopkins Health System, where he will lead systemwide efforts to improve the effectiveness, consistency, and affordability of care delivery.

Featuring Dr. Maia Hightower, Founder and CEP of Veritas Healthcare Insights

Faculty from five Johns Hopkins divisions gathered at the School of Nursing to share pilot grant findings, build new workgroup collaborations, and pitch innovation projects aimed at transforming health care delivery.

Liz Fowler, Marty Gaynor, and Andrew Ryan examine this question in the context of increased health care consolidation.

More than 200 people filled the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on March 5 and 6 for the annual Health Care Business Conference, with another 150 joining remotely. The two-day event, themed "Disruption to Discovery: Innovation in the Business of Health," tackled questions that cut across every corner of the industry: How should health systems adopt AI responsibly? What does value-based care actually look like in practice? And how do you move a good idea from a pilot program to something that works at scale?